Portable camping stove



Jan. 18, 1949.

E c FLINNER PORTABLE CAMPING STOVE Filed Jan. "15 1945 14 TTOFNEY.

Patented Jan. 18, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,459,515 PORTABLE CAMPING s'rovE Elgie C. Flinner, Kansas City, Mo.

Application January 15, 1945, Serial No. 572,805

3 Claims.

This invention relates to portable, self-contained cooking and dining equipment in the nature of a complete kit capable of serving a camper or those experiencing the necessity or desire of transporting the necessary apparatus for p paring and consuming food in the field.

The primary aim of the instant invention is to provide an assembly of the aforementioned character, having a case particularly designed to contain the heat generating assembly when the kit is closed, and of supporting the said assembly for use when the case of the kit is open.

Further objects of this invention include the provision of a portable camping kitchen comprising in the main, a case, partitioned to present a number of compartments, one of which is sized to receive a portable stove or heat generating assembly while the remaining compartments are disposed to have packed therein, such necessary equipment as cooking utensils, eating implements, and packaged foods.

The instant invention has for an even further object the provision of a portable, self-contained camping kitchen that may be quickly set up to function in the field and thereafter expeditiously collapsed and packed, all without use of tools or the employment of elements other than those forming a part of the entire assembly.

Further objects will appear during the course of the following specification, referring to the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Fig. l is a perspective View of a portablecamping kitchen, made in accordance with the present invention,and illustrating the same in the selfcontained condition; and

Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating the manner in which the heat generating assembly is operatively supported by the case and the way in which the several partitions of the case provide compartments.

In the drawing, like reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views, and the numeral Ill generally designates a case formed of sheet metal and assuming the shape illustrated in the two figures of the drawing.

Case ID is provided with handles l2 on each of the two end walls l4 thereof, that cooperate with side walls I6 and bottom I8 in presenting a polygonal, hollow case, normally open at its top for the purpose hereinafter set forth.

One side wall I6 is cut away to present an access opening and door 22, hingedly mounted as at 24 is swingable to and from a closed position, as shown in Fig. 1. A latch 28 maintains door 22 in the closed position as the case I0 is transported.

One of the sides of case I0 is normally open and this open side is disposed in a horizontal plane when the case is to be used. The open side is circumscribed by the uppermost edges of the side and end walls l6 and M respectively. The upper edge of one end wall l4 and one side wall It is inturned to present flanges 28 and 353 respectively to lend rigidity and to aiford an anchor for chain 32 and hinges 34 of grill 36. This grill 35 is movable to and from a place where it closes substantially all of the open side of case If).

Cover 38 hingedly secured along the upper edge of one side wall It, has lateral flanges 40 to telescope with the upper marginal edges of one side wall it and the two end walls l4 when the cover is closed. Thus, a weathertight joint is presented at the zone of juncture between cover 38 and the lower portion of case In. Wind wing 42 swingably secured as at 44 to the inner surface of cover 38, are movable to and from the operative position illustrated in Fig. 2. These wind wings are formed as shown and protect the hereinafter described burners of the heat generating assembly. When the Wings 42 are against the inner face of cover 38, they overlap as shown in Fig. 1 and the depth of cover 38 is sufiicient to receive not only the wings 42 but grill 36.

Case i0 is provided with a number of vertical partitiom 44 and 46, each notched as at 48 and 50 respectively at their upper ends. Horizontal partitions 52 and 54 are disposed as illustrated in Fig. 2, and a drawer 56 is slidably positioned between horizontal partitions 52 and 54. Note that partitions 52 and 54 extend across the interior of case ID from vertical partition 44 to the end wall [4 and that a storage compartment defined by partition 44, the proximal end wall 14, and the adjacent portions of side walls I6, has a depth equal to the height of case In and also equal to the length of the heat generating assembly, designated in its entirety by the numeral 58.

The heat generating assembly 58 comprises a fuel tank 60 and a pair of burners 62 interconnected by a frame 64, a portion whereof rests directly upon the upper edge of the forward side wall I6 to permit the positioning of burners 62 below grill 36, as illustrated in Fig. 2. A notch 66 in end wall I4 allows the passage therethrough of supply pipe 68 that extends laterally to a connection with fuel tank 60 exteriorly of case ID when heat is being generated for cooking. Valve H3 is also isolated from the flames generated by burners 62 when the assembly 58 is in operation.

When heat generating assembly 58 is to be stored for transportation, it is fitted into the compartment at one end of case 10 and assumes the position shown in Fig. 1. Complete isolation of the assembly 58 is permitted through the aforesaid construction, and if the parts of the kit are to be assembledrwhen burners-62 arestill warm, such may be accomplishedwithout possibility of danger resulting from any portion of the heat generating assembly 58 coming into con;- tact with food or articles in the remaining com.- partments of case 10.

The uppermost compartments or those; abovepartition 52 are used to store and transport cooking utensils and staples such as flour, sugar'and lard, and these commodities and articles arearemoved prior to placing" the heat generating assembly in the position shown; in Fig. 2.

Tools, such as knives, forks and spoons, are,

therefore accessible when they are kept in drawer 56 even though the burners are in operation. So. also are the plates, pans and larger. articles that are stored in the compartments immediately above bottom 18 of case 10. and horizontal partition 54.

Advantages other than those. specified herein arise from the use of a portable campingkitchen made to embody the present invention and. :x

therefore, it is desired not to be limited to thedetails of use set forth. Also. since. kits of the character shown and described may be made to present physical. characteristics different. from those hereby disclosed, it is desired to be limited in the enjoyment of theinvention only by the. spirit thereof and scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described the invention, what isclaimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:

1. A. portable camping kitchen comprising an open top case including side walls, end. wallsand a bottom;v vertical and. horizontal partitions: in the case dividing the same into a number of compartments; a cover mounted on the case for movement toand from a position closingthe top of the case; a grill swingably carried for disposition over at least a portion. of the open. topof the case; and a heat generating assembly proportioned to be received in one of the compartl ments of the case and having means for secure.- ment to the upper edge of the case when the cover ismoved'from the closedposition, certain of the vertical partitions in the case having notches to.-

receive the heat, generating assembly when the same issupport'ed in the operative position. by the.

partitions below the grill;

2. A portable camping kitchen comprising an open top case including side walls, end walls and a bottom; vertical partitions in the case dividing the same into a number of compartments; a cover mounted on the case for movement to and from a position closing the top of the case; a grill swingably carried for disposition over at least a portion of the open top of the case; and a heat generating, assembly proportioned to be entirely 'received'in one of the compartments of the case when in an inoperative position, said heat generating assembly having a fuel tank, a plurality of. burners, and a frame interconnecting the tank and said burners, the burners being each-separately confined within one of said compartments in the case below the grill, the fuel tank being outside the case, and the frame overlapping a portion of the uppermost edge of the case when the said assembly is in the operative position.

3. A portable camping kitchen comprising an open top case including side Walls, end walls and abottom; partitions in the case dividing the same intoa number of compartments; a cover mounted on the case for movement to and from a position closingthe top of the case; a grill swingably carried'for disposition over at least a portion of, the open top of the case; and a heat generating assembly. proportioned to be received in one of the compartments. of the case and having means for securement to the upper edge of the case when the. cover is movedfrom the closed position, one of thepartitions extending. vertically from the bottom to the top. of the case to set ofi the said onecompartment as a storage compartment for the heat, generating assembly, said one partition having a notch therein to receive a portion of the assembly whereby the heat generating part of'the assembly is below the open top of the case when the same is in the operative position.

ELGIE C. FLIN'NER.

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